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confabulate
[ kuhn-fab-yuh-leyt ]
verb (used without object)
, con·fab·u·lat·ed, con·fab·u·lat·ing.
- to converse informally; chat.
- Psychiatry. to replace a gap in one's memory by a falsification that one believes to be true; engage in confabulation.
confabulate
/ kənˈfæbjʊˌleɪt /
verb
- to talk together; converse; chat
- psychiatry to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be true See also paramnesia
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Derived Forms
- conˈfabulatory, adjective
- conˌfabuˈlation, noun
- conˈfabuˌlator, noun
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Other Words From
- con·fabu·lator noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of confabulate1
First recorded in 1600–10; from Latin confābulātus (past participle of confābulārī “to talk together, discuss”); con- ( def ), fable ( def ), -ate 1( def )
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Word History and Origins
Origin of confabulate1
C17: from Latin confābulārī, from fābulārī to talk, from fābula a story; see fable
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Example Sentences
She does not break the thread of a conversation by irrelevant questions or confabulate in an undertone with the servants.
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Birds of a feather not only flock together, but, as every ornithologist knows full well, can confabulate.
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Eden is not yet returned from Woodstock; I will confabulate with him.
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In this manner, said my master, did the parson and I confabulate; and I set him down at his lodgings in the village.
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An' whut dem six ghostes do but stand round an' confabulate?
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